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How to disable option key to type greek letter in Mac OS?

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I'm using Mac Os Version 10.9 Mavericks, When I use Option+key, it will print greek letters such as åß∂ƒ..., How to disable this function? Because it conflicts with some emacs key in IDEs.

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herbertD Avatar asked Dec 25 '13 07:12

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Solved natively as follows:

⟶ System preferences
⟶ Keyboard
⟶ Input Sources Tab
+ at bottom left
⟶ add and select Unicode Hex Input

 ✓  Mac no longer prints anything on alt+letter|number
 ✓  enter unicode characters via alt+[code]
 ✓ Keyboard shortcuts are assignable to alt key

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ultraGentle Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 03:11

ultraGentle


I use Ukulele to fix this issue.

  1. Set current input Sources to U.S.
  2. [Menu] File->New from current source
  3. Pressing Option+a/b/c.... and double click the highlight key, clear the content.
  4. [Menu] Keyboard->Set Keyboard Name save as a new name, set the format to Keyboard layout file.
  5. Click 'File'==>'install' or, Copy the layout file to /Library/Keyboard Layouts
  6. Open Keyboard Preferences, click Others, select your custom layout.

This is my settings looks like, you can delete them all. enter image description here

That all, Now you can use emacs key style in some IDE such as IntelliJ or Android Studio.

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herbertD Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 01:11

herbertD